firedoglake.com - 1/25/2009
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This morning on "This Week," Sam Donaldson found out why you shouldn't talk about economics if you don't know anything about economics while sharing the stage with a Nobel laureate in economics.
DONALDSON: The new head of the president's council of economic advisers, a few ...
crookedtimber.org - 1/21/2009
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crookedtimber.org —
As James Surowiecki points out here , my
views on what’s entailed in bank nationalisation differ significantly...
from those of Paul Krugman . [1] Krugman, like quite a few other advocates of nationalisation, has in mind models like the Resolution ...
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In which I disagree with Paul Krugman
thenextright.com - 1/26/2009
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thenextright.com —
Paul Krugman is deeply frustrating. In today's New
York Times op-ed , Krugman makes two important points...
about intellectual dishonesty - or perhaps mere intellectual hackery - among Republicans, but then engages in dishonesty/hackery of his ...
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Improving the Stimulus Debate
obsidianwings.blogs.com - 1/28/2009
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obsidianwings.blogs.com —
by von The largest part of the proposed
stimulus is appropriations -- aka, government spending. But, as...
noted below , this part of the stimulus isn't much of a stimulus. It can't have nearly as much of a stimulus effect as the other two parts ...
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A Stimulus for Tomorrow, part 2
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Krugman v. Donaldson.
INSTAPUTZ —
Who do you think won?
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The Sideshow —
... , and he politely tells them they are all wrong. Blue Texan: "It's just like having Alvy Singer trot out Marshall McLuhan every Sunday morning." (Thanks to CMike.) ...
Now let's see just how far Obama's "I won" stance goes
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... funny how George W. Bush's promises of being a compassionate conservative were completely ignored by the media once he was actually elected, but the same media -- you know, the ones wingnuts insist on believing is "liberal" just because Rachel Maddow has five hours a week on the teevee -- that admired George Bush's "guts" and "strength" are using Obama's promises to include Republicans as a cudgel against him, and against this plan. I mean, Paul Krugman can't be EVERYWHERE to knock down the gotcha idiocy of the nattering class. We've seen what massive tax cuts ...
Progressive Breakfast: Who Won In November?
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... FireDogLake posts video of Paul Krugman politely slamming Sam Donaldson for carrying the false conservative talking point that Obama adviser Christina Romer previously wrote a paper undermining the rationale from the econ recovery bill. ...
Bill Scher: First You Don't Succeed, Lie and Lie Again
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... For the past month, conservatives have been distorting and misapplying Romer's 1994 economic paper to claim that tax cuts offer a huge "multiplier" effect for the economy, and public investment offers nothing. Of course, the conservative claims have been repeatedly debunked, most prominently this past Sunday by Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on ABC's This Week, but also by ...
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All stimulus, all the time
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Obama will listen to Krugman
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Obama: ‘If Paul Krugman has a good idea…then we’re going to do it.’
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Krugman: Obama Should Ignore "Huffing And Puffing" Stimulus Opponents
huffingtonpost.com 1/26/2009 — Economist Paul Krugman has been somewhat critical of President Obama's stimulus plan. But today in the New York Times he defends the proposal:
As the debate over President Obama's economic stimulus plan gets under way, one thing is certain: many ...
Wilkinson v. Krugman
corner.nationalreview.com 2/10/2009 — Stephen posted the quote from Barro earlier, but I think Will Wilkinson deserves to be quoted at greater length:
The deeper problem, I think, is that the textbook theory doesn't have any politics in it. In macroeconomics textbooks, government is a ...
Krugman shows why we need more progressive voices on TV
openleft.com 1/26/2009 — When I was at MoveOn, media reform was one of my main issues. I had substantial dialogues with the folks at ABC's This Week about the right-wing skew of some of their Sunday roundtables. To his credit, George Stephanopoulous had Paul Krugman on the ...
Is the stimulus bill good enough?
the-reaction.blogspot.com 2/14/2009 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Krugman says no : By any normal political standards, this week's Congressional agreement on an economic stimulus package was a great victory for President Obama. He got more or less what he asked for: almost $800 ...
Disagreeing With Paul Krugman
capitalgainsandgames.com 2/8/2009 — doesn't believe that the stimulus bill is likely to be enough to get the job done and seems almost despondent about the fact that the compromise that will allow something to pass the Senate made it even smaller. Krugman thinks this bill will be it, ...
Bigger stimulus
dailykos.com 1/12/2009 — Paul Krugman argues for a bolder, larger economic recovery plan than the one offered by President-Elect Obama, and asks the following question: Why isn’t Mr. Obama trying to do more? As it turns out, Obama himself was asked this very same ...
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